Linux-realplayer missing from ports

Frank Shute frank at shute.org.uk
Wed Nov 4 09:40:11 UTC 2009


On Tue, Nov 03, 2009 at 03:16:09PM -1000, Al Plant wrote:
>
> Aloha,
> 
> I am trying to get Linux-RealPlayer to install from updated ports 
> collection on a FreeBSD 9 desktop box. (Xorg and www etc all installed 
> fine on this test box.)
> 
> Error says it cannot be found in our ports collection. Is there a way to 
> locate the maintainer? This port is missing some components. Or can it 
> be down loaded into distfiles? If so from where?
> 
> Or has this been replaced by something else to play audio in ports. I 
> would be glad to try any port for playing audio from web or files that 
> is known to work.
> 
> Thanks....
> 

/usr/ports/multimedia/linux-realplayer

on my box.

I guess you're using portupgrade; sometimes it can't find ports
without using wildcards.

Regards,

-- 

 Frank

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